Re: how to "vncviewer" my home pc from office?

192.168.1.3 is private non-routed range, used for local networks. If you want to fast decision, try to use teamviewer - teamviewer.com. Other ways are rather complicated, for example installing and configuring openVPN at home computer and make port forwarding on modem and router to have possibility

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

> Or (from hdparm's man page: Disable the automatic power-saving > function of certain Seagate drives...): > hdparm -Z /dev/sda # hdparm -Z /dev/sda /dev/sda: disabling Seagate auto powersaving mode HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(seagatepwrsave) failed: Input/output error lbrtchx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On 9/28/2012 6:30 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > AMDINTL64 seems to long for me. Compared to "kfreebsd-amd64" or "kfreebsd-i386" it's not long at all. Besides, the length is pretty much irrelevant. What matters is that people know exactly what it is by name alone. > I think x86-64 would make s

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On 9/28/2012 1:52 AM, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to rename >> the IA64 port to "Itanium" and rename the AMD64 port to something like >> "AMDINTL64". > > Something wrong with 'x86

how to "vncviewer" my home pc from office?

I have a debian laptop in my home, which is connected to a router(which is connected to my modem). I did ifconfig on my laptop and it gaves me a bunch of information and I noticed there is a ip addr. which is 192.168.1.3...And I opened a vncserver on my laptop. I tried to connect my laptop from

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

On 9/28/2012 1:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 20:27 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Try: $clive -f best "http://vimeo.com/24972836"; Does it download and convert long YouTube videos on the fly or does it take hours? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KufCS2ad0eE Regards, Ralf On

Re: command isn't working in crontab

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 01:35:04AM +0200, Tomas Hulata wrote: > Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can > someone explain me why? > > 23 58 * * * rootcd /some_path/;mkdir "CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)";mv > ./CAM1/*.* ./"CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)"/;mkdir "CAM2-$(date +

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

~ I think there may be a number of things going on here. Let me first answer Neal's questions: ~ > Have you tried "fdisk -l /dev/sda"? ~ Well, there are no disk attached whatsoever to my box. I am using a bear live CD (knoppix 7.0.2) right off the DVD drive ~ > How about: > tail -f /var/log/mes

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On Friday, September 28, 2012 08:58:47 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > >1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006Pre-fail > > > > > > > > Always - 96695847 > > > > > > Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very > > > low. > > > > Not nec

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

> > >1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006Pre-fail > > > > > > Always - 96695847 > > > > Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very > > low. > Not necessarily. At least one disk mfr (Seagate?) puts large values in these > fields. Cause

Re: command isn't working in crontab

double quotes are OK but % is not, it is special character in crontab , I have found it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron On 29.09.2012 02:05, Neal Murphy wrote: On Friday, September 28, 2012 07:35:04 PM Tomas Hulata wrote: Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob c

Re: command isn't working in crontab

On Friday, September 28, 2012 07:35:04 PM Tomas Hulata wrote: > Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can > someone explain me why? > > 23 58 * * * rootcd /some_path/;mkdir "CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)";mv > ./CAM1/*.* ./"CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)"/;mkdir "CAM2-$(date +%d.

command isn't working in crontab

Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can someone explain me why? 23 58 * * * rootcd /some_path/;mkdir "CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)";mv ./CAM1/*.* ./"CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)"/;mkdir "CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)";mv ./CAM2/*.* ./"CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)"/ I want to move f

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

Hendrik Boom writes: > It's more modern, and its classification guides are legitimately > available for free download. What about LCC is not in the public domain? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Using wget to fill in a form

On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 10:01:51 -0500, craig wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a small book collection (~150) that I thought would be neat to > catalog by the Library of Congress catalog numbers. This isn't what you asked for at all, but you might consider the BLISS classification instead. It's more

Re: Wacom Intuos dies after system suspend

On 28 September 2012 15:26, lee wrote: > Helgi Örn Helgason writes: > >> Can someone enlighten me on this? Surely there must be a way to get >> this going without rebooting? A command or something? > > Unplug it before suspend and plug it back in after waking up, or unplug > it and plug it back i

GRUB problem after clone

Hello! I would like to move from old 320GB HDD to a new 1TB HDD. I have the following partition structure: sda1 - XP sda2 - Debian 7 x86_64 (boot partition) sda3 - swap The GRUB is on the sda2 partition not in the MBR. That's why sda2 is the boot partition. If I set sda1 as boot partition XP run

Server upgrade to wheezy failed

My server upgrade from squeeze to wheezy just failed. But I'm not panicking, I can still dual-boot into a back-up squeeze partition, and squeeze still works perfectly. I just upgraded my server from squeeze to wheezy. Lots of packages failed to upgrade because of dependency problems. Now it'

Re: mounting extern FREECOM HD in squeeze

Hi, On 27/09/12 12:42, Filipe Freire wrote: Dear All! I am having problems getting a stable mount of an extern FREECOM HD on debian squeeze. Sometimes it mounts and by running # blkid -o list -c /dev/null get /dev/sdb1 vfatFREECOM HDD /media/FREECOM HDD 13EC-4051 but it often umounts w

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On Friday, September 28, 2012 08:23:59 AM Dom wrote: > >1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 082 006Pre-fail > > > > Always - 96695847 > > Ok, your disk is dying. The Raw_Read_Error_Rate should be zero, or very > low. Not necessarily. At least one disk mfr (Seagate?) p

Re: No shutdown after processor change

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/26/2012 11:14 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Selim T. Erdogan >> wrote: >>> Artifex Maximus, 18.09.2012: >>> Did you make any software updates to the system? I have a pretty old >>> computer that is usin

Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

> That would work. However I think you could also have logrotate use a socket > for logging (at least -ng). What you might really want to look into is > splunk or graylog2 (or the other solutions I can never remember). > > Also, socat is another solution for playing with device io. I don't believe

Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

> Try "tail --follow=mylogfile", this will followed the currently named > "mylogfile" even if the old file is renamed and a new one opened, rather > than following the old file which -f does. > I used to know that. Sadly, I even looked at the man page yesterday before posting and still missed th

Re: Two cronjobs for apticron?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:31:19PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: >On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:30:36PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: >>After the installation of apticron I noticed I have two cronjobs. >This is fixed in Testing as I have noticed. The package apticron >doesn’t ship a file in /etc/cron.da

Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

On Sep 28, 2012 11:30 AM, "Darac Marjal" wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:20:16AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > > Good morning, When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail -f to get a continuous outpu

Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

On 28/09/12 16:20, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: Good morning, When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail -f to get a continuous output of the console, but it fails to ever update. Is it possible to watch anot

Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

On Friday, September 28, 2012 10:29, "Darac Marjal" said: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:20:16AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> Good morning, When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is >> happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail >> -f >> to g

Re: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:20:16AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > Good morning, When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is > happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail > -f to get a continuous output of the console, but it fails to ever update. Is

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

in a box in which I use the fromhd stanza using a disk which smartclt reports as being fine the results before and after suspending are the same ~ this is what the dying disk reports ~ $ date; X=`(time fdisk -l) 2>&1 | grep real`; echo $X Fri Sep 28 10:52:58 UTC 2012 real 0m0.191s $ date; X=`(tim

RE: Is it possible to monitor VTs via ssh?

Good morning, When I ssh into a remote system, I am able to see what is happening on VT2 by entering the command 'cat /dev/vcs2'. I tried using tail -f to get a continuous output of the console, but it fails to ever update. Is it possible to watch another VT in real time over ssh? Thanks, Crai

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On 28/09/12 13:52, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:23:59PM +0100, Dom wrote: It *is* possible that smartctl is mis-interpretting the status of your disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not. Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data over asap

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

I just backed up all the data ~ Yet, it seems something else may be (also?) somehow relating to those delays. Since I start knoppix 7.0.2 as: ~ knoppix no3d fromhd=/dev/sda9 ~ could these issues/problems relate to the fact that /dev/sda9 is mounted read-only and knoppix keeps it to itself throu

Fwd: mounting extern FREECOM HD in squeeze

Hi resending as it did not seem to reach the list. Sorry if this was not the case.- Filipe -- Forwarded message -- From: Filipe Freire Date: 27 September 2012 12:42 Subject: mounting extern FREECOM HD in squeeze To: debian-user Dear All! I am having problems getting a stable

Re: Two cronjobs for apticron?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 08:30:36PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: System: Debian Squeeze After the installation of apticron I noticed I have two cronjobs. This is fixed in Testing as I have noticed. The package apticron doesn’t ship a file in /etc/cron.daily anymore but only creates one in /etc/

Re: Wacom Intuos dies after system suspend

Helgi Örn Helgason writes: > Can someone enlighten me on this? Surely there must be a way to get > this going without rebooting? A command or something? Unplug it before suspend and plug it back in after waking up, or unplug it and plug it back in after waking up? Or don't suspend ... -- Deb

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

Albretch Mueller writes: >> Because your disk is sleeping? > ~ > That I think may be the reason why. I did notice and check that it > always seems to happen after suspending my box, even if you unmount > all drives before, but what I don't get is that may people would be > complaining about that

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov: >> >> Downgrading grub packages to 1.99-23 from unstable did the trick, as I >> thought. >> System boots and works fine. > > Ok, good. > > Would be interesting to know what the er

Re: aptitude interpretation of dialog

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 05:49:29AM -0700, james gray wrote: >after the initial dialog received from #aptitude safe-upgrade there was at >the end.� > >the following : > >Need to get O B of archives. After unpacking O B will be used. > >after that dialog, the command line was h

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:35:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Maybe we could start some kind of petition for "Itanium" and > "AMDINTL64". I think these tell everyone at a glance what they need to > know when selecting a port, and would completely eliminate the confusion. Itanium will probably

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:23:59PM +0100, Dom wrote: > It *is* possible that smartctl is mis-interpretting the status of > your disk, but given your slow fdisk command I suspect not. > > Time to backup, backup, backup, buy a new disk and transfer the data > over asap. YES to backup, but it's wort

aptitude interpretation of dialog

after the initial dialog received from #aptitude safe-upgrade there was at the end. the following : Need to get O B of archives. After unpacking O B will be used. after that dialog, the command line was handed back Question: what is O B. I am working with the Debian Net Install 6.0 Squeez

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On 28/09/12 12:27, Albretch Mueller wrote: Failing boot sector? Some other sector it has to read is failing? Check the logs. Try (from smartmontools): ~ I don't know exactly which of your questions/suggestions running: ~ smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep -i "sector|realloc" ~ relates to, but it

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:24:12 +0200 Siard wrote: > Celejar: > > lee: > > > Celejar: > > > > If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the > > > > content from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)? > > > > > > You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't have >

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

On 28/09/12 11:30, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Hi On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:52:26AM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: $ date; fdisk -l; date Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012 Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors Units = sectors

Re: Two cronjobs for apticron?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Stephan Seitz: Since the first cronjob calls apticron without an option, apticron will run twice a day. Does anyone know the reason for this behaviour? Maybe not. Does apticron -cron yi

Re: Elegant solution for network-dependent cifs/smb mounting?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 02:45:26PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for a debian- (and optimally kde-) compatible solution that > would allow me to mount cifs/smb network drives ONLY if on the network where > they are expected to exist. > > I there was a solution that woul

Elegant solution for network-dependent cifs/smb mounting?

Hi, I am looking for a debian- (and optimally kde-) compatible solution that would allow me to mount cifs/smb network drives ONLY if on the network where they are expected to exist. I there was a solution that would upon attempted access to adrive a) check whether on the right network b) check

Re: Two cronjobs for apticron?

Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Stephan Seitz: > Hi! > > System: Debian Squeeze > > After the installation of apticron I noticed I have two cronjobs. > One belongs to the package and is installed in /etc/cron.daily. It > calls apticron without options. > The other one is created by the

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

Am Freitag, 28. September 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 02:52 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: > > On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to > > > rename the IA64 port to "Itanium" and rename the

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

Am Freitag, 28. September 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 9/27/2012 10:07 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Tony Baldwin: > >> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > >>> I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used > >>> google and then I grepped

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

2012/9/28 Martin Steigerwald > Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov: > > Downgrading grub packages to 1.99-23 from unstable did the trick, as I > > thought. > > System boots and works fine. > > Ok, good. > > Would be interesting to know what the error was. > > In case you spar

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

> Failing boot sector? > Some other sector it has to read is failing? > Check the logs. Try (from smartmontools): ~ I don't know exactly which of your questions/suggestions running: ~ smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep -i "sector|realloc" ~ relates to, but it didn't report any error message. Without g

Re: grub2.00-7 from experimental

Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2012 schrieb Valery Mamonov: > Downgrading grub packages to 1.99-23 from unstable did the trick, as I > thought. > System boots and works fine. Ok, good. Would be interesting to know what the error was. In case you spare any free time, I´d look in the shell script up

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

Hi On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 03:52:26AM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ date; fdisk -l; date > Thu Sep 27 22:48:21 UTC 2012 > > Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector si

Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

Celejar: > lee: > > Celejar: > > > If the website gives you a mms:// url, can wget download the > > > content from that (I don't know, I've never tried it)? > > > > You'd have to try, the manpage of wget doesn't say and I don't have > > an URL to try it with. > > I'm pretty sure wget doesn't hand

Wacom Intuos dies after system suspend

Hi! I have a Wacom Intuos 2 Graphic Tablet connected through USB. When I wake up the system after it's been in suspend-mode, the Wacom doesn't work. According to Gimp it's still connected and checking with with xinput gives me: $ xinput --list --short ⎡ Virtual core pointer

KDevelop Problem

Hello, I would like use KDevelop for browse souce code using the CTAGS, since now I had just use vi but now I need a GUI tools, my PC is running a Debian 6.0.5 32 bit with GNOME. My problem is that when I import a new project I can select the folder correctly but after that I see KDevelop bar

Re: why would fdisk -l take so long?

Could it be a missing swap partition is slowing down drive access? I don't know if you were connected to the internet when you did this run, but if so, you might disconnect from the internet and run fdisk -l again and compare speeds. It could be fdisk is checking for remote disks as well but

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 02:52 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Friday, September 28, 2012 02:35:49 AM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > The only permanent solution to this confusion is for Debian to rename > > the IA64 port to "Itanium" and rename the AMD64 port to something like > > "AMDINTL64". > > Something